Comparison

Piano Kit vs Piano Teacher

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Piano Kit

This app provides a comprehensive tool for exploring piano chords and scales. It features a large preset library, allows users to create custom fingerings, and offers playback of individual notes and chords. It's useful for learning, composing, and practicing music.

Highlights
  • Extensive preset chord library
  • Create custom chord fingerings
  • Play notes and chords
  • View scales and matched chords
  • Export MIDI files
  • Backup and restore data
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The most excellent Piano Chord Form tool in the world, in your pocket! You can search almost chord form and display it. Piano Kit has enough huge preset library. And you can create your original fingering forms. Piano Kit supports Slide Over and Split View on iPad, and provides the appropriate display and operation for iPhone and iPad. Piano Kit has very large preset library, but you can view a target chord form so easily! You can directly select a chord form by smooth scrolling Chord Picker or focus on a little chord forms by typing a part of chord name. You can search by various Enharmonic Equivalents. If you tap the top piano keyboard, Piano Kit play each note. And if you select a chord in the list or cell, play chord any times. Favorites Tab allows to memory your favorite chord forms. And Sheet has 4 octave keyboard and allows to view more than one chord, so it’s especially convenient for you to confirm chord forms in specific song. Sheet support Black and White mode, it looks like chord forms paper sheet. Display doesn’t dim during working. It can be trusted to think other thing or play songs. And you can handle multiple songs by “Export Native File” feature. Make Tab allows you to create your original chord forms. You can handle them as like preset library completely. Of course you can add new chord form similar to existing chord form using Reproduce Form function easily. And you can slide decided chord form to left or right. So you’ll be able to add chord forms changed Root note in succession. Suggest Form function offers randomly new chord form contains selected notes. And Guess Chord Name function suggests chord names by decided chord form or selected notes on 1 octave keyboard. Scale Tab allows to show many popular scales. And also you can find matched chords with a scale you selected. You can toggle setting Note Name / Interval for each note. You can back up data you’ve created to Mail, Dropbox, box and others. And you can restore it at any time. And also, you can export Sheet Chord Forms as SMF(Standard MIDI File) to Mail, Dropbox, box and others, so you will be able to use as Chord Progression if you import it to your DAW. By the way, Piano Kit exports Chord Name as Marker. If you handle Sheet by Piano Kit only, “Export Native File” function is very easy. Even if some sheet chord forms don’t exist in Library Tab, Native File can be imported to Sheet exactly. It is like function open and save multiple songs. Quick working and most beautiful Piano Chord Form app “Piano Kit” is very useful for you, exactly! Advanced Option : When you’ll buy this low price add-on, you can use more Chords and Scales. It will provide a complete set usually. You can read full function description at support page. http://therootage.com/iphone/piano-kit-en/

About

Piano Teacher

Learn to play the piano with beginner-friendly tutorials covering basic chords and techniques. Track your practice progress daily and connect with a community of fellow learners to share experiences and tips.

Highlights
  • Beginner piano lessons
  • Basic piano tutorials
  • Learn piano chords
  • Daily practice tracking
  • Piano community forum
Features
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Piano Personal Practise Instructor Tutorials • Piano Lessons for Beginner • Beginner Piano Lessons • Basic Piano Tutorial • Piano Chords • Learn How To Play Piano Daily CheckIn • Record practise status Piano Community • Communiating with other users,exchange experience Try learn piano and have fun!

Screenshots

Piano Kit4 screens
Piano Teacher4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Piano Teacher at 98% against Piano Kit's 50%. Piano Teacher also leads on price (Free vs $2.99) and rating (4.7 vs 2.0). Piano Kit's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Piano Teacher is free to download; Piano Kit costs $2.99 up front. Piano Kit sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Piano Teacher sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Piano Teacher holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Piano Teacher has 191 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Piano Kit's written reviews are positive against 98% of Piano Teacher's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Piano Kit ships an update every 2 months, Piano Teacher every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 7, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Piano Kit versus Piano Teacher: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPiano KitPiano Teacher
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating2.0 (1 ratings)4.7 (191 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews98.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1191 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.115 — better
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHidenori Matsuoka叶 李

Customer experience

Piano Kit

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Piano Teacher

All ratings191 ratings
Positive92.7%
Neutral3.7%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews58 reviews
Positive98.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative1.7%

Bugs and requests

Piano Kit

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Piano Teacher

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Ads cannot be closed by tapping skip or close buttons
  • Ad interruptions prevent access to lessons
  • iOS compatibility issues with ad closing functionality

Requested features

4 requests
  • Better ad management system
  • Improved video and audio quality
  • More advanced lessons
  • Faster lesson pacing option

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Piano Kit

One-time1
  • Advanced Option$1.99
1 purchases

Piano Teacher

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$4.99

Questions

Is Piano Kit free?
Piano Kit costs $2.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Piano Teacher free?
Piano Teacher is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Piano Kit or Piano Teacher?
Piano Teacher is rated higher. Piano Kit averages 2.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Piano Teacher averages 4.7 from 191 ratings.
Do Piano Kit or Piano Teacher have ads?
Piano Teacher shows ads; Piano Kit does not.
Which is updated more often, Piano Kit or Piano Teacher?
Piano Kit ships an update every 2 months, and Piano Teacher every 4 weeks. Most recently, Piano Kit was updated on September 7, 2026 and Piano Teacher on September 9, 2026.

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